"Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh my God"
"What?"
"Guess what I just read?"
"What, what?"
"He is coming to Forks!"
"He? As in, Edward Cullen?"
"The Edward Cullen."
A girl with long blonde locks nods her head vigorously. She is clutching a magazine to her chest. The other blonde's eyes grow wide like saucers.
"No freaking way"
"Yes it's true. It says here in this article that he's coming to shoot a movie"
"Oh my God!!!!"
As the two girls scream out in pleasure, a brunette enters the washroom. She shuffles up to a cubicle and is about to enter when the first blonde sneers out, "Oh look it's Blah Swan"
"My name is Bella"
The second blonde rolled her eyes and said, "So Bella Swan, you wouldn't have heard the latest gossip would you?"
"No, what's up?"
Jessica gave a side look to Lauren.
"Well.... Edward Cullen is coming to town....."
"Oh," Bella turned beet red.
"Yes, oh Lauren, remember how our dear little Belly-kins had a crush on him?"
"Oh yeah......."
"W-well I w-was young, it was 9th gr-grade" Bella stammered, turning another shade of red. And with that she turned around and left.
"God, what a loser!"
"Tell me about it."
-------------------------------------- Bella's P.O.V -----------------------------------------
OH. SHIT!
No freaking way is Edward Cullen coming to Forks!!!
Ok, let me explain. I'm Bella Swan and in 9th grade, I had this gigantic crush on Edward Cullen, an upcoming actor. So I confided in Jessica about my little crush and she told Lauren... who kinda told the whole school...
But I'm over him now.... I think......
Alright, time for English. I hope Alice has some advice for this. Alice Brandon was, and still is, my first best friend in Forks High. Alice and I are like North Pole and South Pole- very different, yet one can't exist without the other. She is wild, crazy and the type of girl who fits in everywhere. Me? I'm the shy, quiet type. I'm nothing special to look at- what, with a height of 5'4 and long, boring brown hair, coupled with plain brown eyes and geeky glasses. All in all, an extremely ordinary girl.
Better hurry to English. I need to talk to Alice right now. I was walking fast and didn't realize that someone was standing in my way until after I crashed into him. Cheeks blazing and books scattered everywhere, I looked up to see who I had crashed into. It was some new student. He looked around my age with black hair and piercing green eyes which were filled with intense dislike.
"Can't you watch where you're going!" he hissed. Despite the obvious beauty, I felt an odd feeling of irritation towards him. My eyes narrowed. "I'm sorry that you're an ass who likes to stand around in the hallway, in the rush hour between classes" I waved towards the hallway which was now almost empty.
"Shit!" The stupid guy made me late for my class! I'm sooo getting detention for being late! I quickly gathered my books that had fallen down and hurried off. "It's encouraging to see how nice you guys are to the new people!" He shouted after me as I scurried off.
Humph stupid jerk! I skidded to a stop in front of my English class, smoothed my skirt, knocked and entered. Mr. Smith gave me an icy glare and said dramatically, "It's nice to see, class, that Isabella has finally agreed to grace us with her presence." Then his voice took on a change of tone and suddenly it was like acid. "Sit down, Swan. Last warning." Face burning with embarrassment I hastily made my way to the seat next to Alice. She looked at me questioningly as I ripped a piece of paper from one of my notebooks and wrote what had happened moments before I entered this class and slid it towards her. She quickly understood, read what I had written and scribbled something back and pushed it towards me.
A- What did he look like?
B- Ugh Alice, can you concentrate on my problem right now?
A- Sorry, but I thought if I kinda knew how he looked I might find out who he is and what his problem is......
B- Awwwwww. Thanks Al-
As I was about to finish what I was writing, I was interrupted by a silent screech. "SIR!!" I looked up just in time to see Mr. Smith turn around to face the class. That was odd. Alice seemed to know what he was going to do before he actually did it.
After English was finally over, I headed towards Biology. I liked Biology, it was easy and I was the only one who had no partner. No interference in projects was better than having a partner whose help I wouldn't really require, and the teacher didn't mind as long I got good grades and didn't complain. Just as I turned the corner I saw the guy from earlier go into the Biology class.
This was gonna be a long day. I entered the class silently praying that he just went in to deliver a message to the teacher, or something. But no, with my luck I knew it was a moot point. I didn't know how bad my luck was until I entered the class and saw it for myself. There, sitting on the always empty desk beside mine, was that jerk!
Grrr......
My biology teacher was still arranging his desk when I came in.
"Good morning, Isabella"
"Good morning Mr. Banner"
"Would you be kind enough to show the new student around and help him with his biology work, if he has problems?"
I felt like screaming no, never in a million years, but what actually came out was "Sure, sir."
"Ah, thank you, Isabella."
And so with a heavy heart I went to my seat and in a moment's decision decided to start over. I shifted in my seat to face him and found that he was staring at me. Seeing his gorgeous face again, I felt like hurling insults once more but quickly decided against it.
"Hi, I'm Bella, and you?"
He continued staring as if I was speaking in French. Narrowing his eyes he said, "Do you have a multiple personality disorder?"
"Alright, that's it! I'm trying to be nice but you are soooo not helping!!"
I was already in my PMS and this guy being rude was not making it any better. Who was this guy, anyway?
"Nobody's asking you to be nice."
I gave him the iciest glare possible and turned back to glare at the blackboard.
Yep, this was definitely not going well.
While walking towards Gym, I noticed many stares and glares but I ignored them. There was a group of kids standing in a loose circle, doing what could only look like gossiping, in hushed, excited whispers. I heard the name Anthony many times in their whispered conversations and since I didn't know about any Anthony studying in our school, I looked over at them, wondering who they were talking about. As soon as they noticed my glance, they fell silent. Hmm, guess part of the gossip would be about me. I continued walking towards Gym feeling rather self-conscious. Angela met me right outside the gym hall. I felt comforted by her presence.
"So did you see the new kid?"
I sighed internally. This was not going to be a cherished conversation.
"Uhhh... yeah. He's my biology partner."
"Oh my gosh!!"
"What?"
"Well Lauren told Jessica who told Mike who told Ben who told me that Lauren has a crush on him, and is going to ask him out soon!!!"
"Oh well, he deserves her." A sly smile creeping across my face.
"Huh? Have you seen him? He's sooo friggin hot!! Oh, come on. Someone as gorgeous"-she said in an emphatic way- "deserves someone way better than Lauren ... someone like you."
"Oh no! You and Alice are not playing match maker again. I hope you remember the last time."
Angela put on an innocent face, but it was quickly ruined because of her bubbling laughter.
"No Bella remind me of what happened last time" A devious look on her face said that she already knew, but just wanted to hear me say it. Well, tough luck.
"Forget it." I remembered only too well when they had tried to hook me up with some guy named James- and let me tell you, that was not pretty. Half way through the date, I found out that he was gay and had a boyfriend named Laurent. He was just using me to see if he could become straight again by dating a pretty girl.
Yeah, that didn't go very well. I shuddered at the memory. Not only was it embarrassing, it was also so not funny. I hated it when either Alice or Angela brought that story up. It had never failed to give me goose bumps.
Angela smirked at me and said, "Remembering old memories, are we? Care to share?" I gave her a dirty look and went off to change for gym.